Hubble captures a spiral galaxy spinning in two different directions
Hubble captured NGC 4698, a strange spiral galaxy whose stars and gas rotate at right angles, revealing clues…
Central Colombia forest fire threatens tourist town of Villa de Leyva | Climate Crisis News
The country has battled multiple wildfires amid record-breaking temperatures fueled by El Nino and intense drought conditions. Published…
When Hubble swings from one galaxy to another, engineers fire no thrusters—Hubble has none. They change the speeds of four internal reaction wheels, making the observatory rotate the opposite way, while magnetic bars push against Earth’s field to bleed off excess momentum: a propellant-free steering system used since 1990.
When the Hubble Space Telescope finishes observing one galaxy and turns toward another, nothing fires into space. There…
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They look like giant guinea pigs, they eat their own poop, and the Vatican once declared that they…
Scientists Have Dismissed Black Holes as Dark Matter for Years, New Math Says They Were Wrong
(Credit: The universe 001 on Shutterstock) In a Nutshell A new study compared how “fine-tuned” different dark matter…
Vast hidden ocean beneath Earth’s mantle? Scientists stunned by new discovery
Vast hidden ocean beneath Earth’s mantle? Scientists stunned by new discovery – Futura-Sciences September 19, 2026 4 min…
In 2011, NASA sent a solar sail the size of a small apartment into orbit; the thin reflective sheet flew without fuel |
A photo of the experimental solar sail, NanoSail-D. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Spacecraft have historically relied on transporting…
Grey squirrels bury thousands of acorns each year and forget a share of them, unintentionally planting oaks and reshaping forests |
Plant a few thousand trees a year, forget where you put a fair share of them, and you…
New physics explains how odor changes on its journey through the air
Turbulent air changes odor signals before they reach an animal, filtering some frequencies, spreading others, and creating new…
What happens to wildlife when Israel’s roads fall silent on Yom Kippur?
Yom Kippur is one of the most unusual days of the year in Israel, not only socially and…
Venus to Shine at Peak Brightness Over Oman Skies on September 22: How and When to See the Evening Star
With over 30 years of journalistic experience spanning from Jordan to the UAE, Khitam has spent the past…
Physicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decays
ATLAS physicists found strong evidence that pairs of massive Z bosons produced in Higgs decays emerge with entangled…